Benny: The sandlot was in a rough part of the San Fernando Valley. It wasn’t a great place to live, but it wasn’t on fire or anything either.Smalls: It’s the kind of place that your parents are proud to be able to move the family to, but that you’re real glad to move away from later on in life.Timmy: Me and my brother Repeat found the sandlot. We lived in the house right up behind it.Repeat: Our parents hated that field. It was always covered with trash and dirty underwear from the hobos.Hobo: It was a real good sandlot for hoboing in.Repeat: But we never played much ball at first. Then one day we had to find something to do to keep busy for the day.Squints: My dad drank a lot. And back then it was just basically accepted that adults would hit their kids.Benny: Such a weird time.Squints: Such a weird, weird time. Not idyllic like in the movies at all.Repeat: So we needed a place where Squints could hang out until his dad drank himself to sleep.Benny: There were only six of us at the time: me, Ham, Timmy, Repeat, Squints, and Bertram, and the others came later. We couldn’t decide what to do. Timmy and Repeat thought they had figured out how to go the speed of light.Timmy: Mixing water and electricity.Benny: So they wanted to run experiments in the bathtub with a bunch of curling irons and transistor radios.Repeat: I didn’t want to do that, but I was locked into a bad cycle at the time of just repeating everything my brother said.Ham: I wanted to shoot guns.Benny: Everybody had guns back then. Kids just had guns. So weird, that time.Bertram: We were going to get two BB rifles and then see if we could shoot two BBs into each other. Two guys facing each other and firing at the same time at each other.Ham: And if the BBs hit they would smash up.Repeat: I actually wanted to shoot guns, too. But, again, the repeating thing.Benny: And Squints wanted to go to the library and pretend to have a seizure.Squints: And when the librarian comes to resuscitate me I touch her on the boob.Hobo: I just wanted to get a few quarters together and buy a drink.Benny: And I wanted to play baseball.Ham: And Benny always got what he wanted.